Menetes berdmorei (Blyth 1849)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 784

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[Sciurus] berdmorei Blyth 1849 , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 18 (30): 603.

Type Locality: "Thougyeen district" [Tenasserim, Burma].

Vernacular Names: Indochinese Ground Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. berdmorei Blyth 1849

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. consularis Thomas 1914

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. decoratus Thomas 1914

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. moerescens Thomas 1914

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. mouhotei Gray 1861

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. peninsularis Kloss 1919

Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. pyrrocephalus Milne-Edwards 1867

Distribution: S Vietnam, Cambodia, S Laos, Thailand, S Yunnan ( China) to C Burma.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: For taxonomic history, see Moore and Tate (1965:294). Chromosomes described by Nadler and Hoffmann (1970). Corbet and Hill (1992) opined "Although there is considerable geographic variation...it is unlikely that discrete subspecies can be recognized.".